NASA: JFK’s speech to Congress in 1961. http://history.nasa.gov/moondec.html
Kennedy Space Center: Apollo 11
http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/history/apollo/apollo-11/apollo-11.htm
The Moon: http://www.nineplanets.org/luna.html
About.com: Military History: Nixon Doctrine
http://militaryhistory.about.com/b/2007/07/25/vietnam-war-nixon-doctrine.htm
Slaughterhouse-Five. Kurt Vonnegut. The Dial Press Trade Paperback ed. July 2005.
Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum. http://www.nasm.si.edu/collections/imagery/Apollo/AS11/a11.htm
Song lyrics: Amazing Grace. John Newton. Written 1779.
The Cold War: A very short introduction
Robert J. McMahon 2003
Neil Diamond : Sweet Caroline, 1969.
Videos: www.youtube.com
Pictures: Google images
Means of composing, used poetics from:
Slaughterhouse-five (cited above)
Plot Against America: Philip Roth. Vintage International. 2004.
Ragtime: E.L. Doctorow. Random House Trade co., 1974.
Roland Barthes. From Work To Text.